Transfer photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on to your Mac or PC

With the Photos app and a USB cable, you can transfer photos and videos to your computer. Yous can also make your photos bachelor on all your devices with iCloud Photos.

  • Employ iCloud Photos

  • Import to your Mac

  • Import to your Windows PC

Employ iCloud Photos

iCloud Photos keeps your photos and videos safe, upwards to date, and available automatically on all of your Apple devices, on iCloud.com, and fifty-fifty your PC. When you use iCloud Photos, you don't need to import photos from one iCloud device to another. iCloud Photos ever uploads and stores your original, full-resolution photos. You can keep full-resolution originals on each of your devices, or save space with device-optimized versions instead. Either way, y'all can download your originals whenever you need them. Any organizational changes or edits yous brand are ever kept upwardly to date across all your Apple devices. Learn how to set upwardly and use iCloud Photos.

The photos and videos that y'all keep in iCloud Photos employ your iCloud storage. Before you turn on iCloud Photos, brand sure that you have plenty space in iCloud to store your entire collection. You can see how much infinite you need and and so upgrade your storage programme if necessary.

Import to your Mac

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac with a USB cable.
  2. Open the Photos app on your figurer.
  3. The Photos app shows an Import screen with all the photos and videos that are on your connected device. If the Import screen doesn't automatically appear, click the device'south name in the Photos sidebar.
  4. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode. If you see a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device asking you to Trust This Computer, tap Trust to continue.
  5. Choose where you want to import your photos. Next to "Import to," you lot can choose an existing album or create a new one.
  6. Select the photos yous want to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All New Photos.
    macOS Photos Import window
  7. Wait for the process to finish, and then disconnect your device from your Mac.

Import to your Windows PC

You can import photos to your PC by connecting your device to your computer and using the Windows Photos app:

  1. Brand sure that you lot have the latest version of iTunes on your PC. Importing photos to your PC requires iTunes 12.v.one or later.
  2. Connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect to your PC with a USB cable.
  3. If asked, unlock your iOS or iPadOS device using your passcode.
  4. If yous come across a prompt on your iOS or iPadOS device request you to Trust This Figurer, tap Trust or Allow to go on.

Then, visit Microsoft'southward website to larn how to import photos to the Windows Photos app in Windows x.

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, you need to download the original, full resolution versions of your photos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch earlier you lot import to your PC.

When you import videos from your iOS or iPadOS device to your PC, some might be rotated incorrectly in the Windows Photos app. You lot can add these videos to iTunes to play them in the correct orientation.

If you want to ensure photos from your iOS or iPadOS device have the best compatibility with Windows ten, try these steps:

  1. On your iOS or iPadOS device, open the Settings app.
  2. Tap Camera, then tap Formats.
  3. Tap Almost Compatible. From now on, your camera volition create photos and videos in JPEG and H.264 formats.

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